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China has outlined plans for an upcoming flight to the Moon, The Guardian reports:
The spacecraft will consist of four distinct parts: a lander and an ascender, an orbiter and a returner. The lander will descend to the surface of the Moon, collect the samples and place them in the ascender. This will launch and rendezvous with the orbiter and returner, all of which will then journey back towards Earth.
The samples will be transferred to the returner, which will detach from the orbiter and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Chang'e-5 is expected to be launched in November 2017.
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QOTD:
The forest may be quiet, but that doesn't mean
the snakes have gone away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @08:50PM
amazing.
now i thought main-land-chinese where just capitalistic wolves in communist sheep disguise.
but no. they are acctually returning part of the blown-away-part of the original sphere ... to the sphere.
they really are about "let's make the whole thing whole again"?